The Nau Center for Texas Cultural History, as envisioned on a site near Minute Maid Park in on the east side of downtown Houston, is scheduled to open in 2016.

The Nau Center for Texas Cultural History, as envisioned on a site...

No oil was to be found at Spindletop Hill, and first-generation Texas oilmen had the dry wells to prove it. Anthony Lucas pushed ahead anyway, drilling, going bust, drilling some more. Then, on Jan. 10, 1901, after months of trying, the eureka moment arrived.

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